Chicago & Erie Railroad v. Field

The appellee instituted this action against the appellant, a common carrier of passengers, for failing to carry him as per contract from Auburn Park, Illinois, to Hammond, Indiana.

Upon issues joined there was a trial by jury, resulting in a verdict and judgment in favor of the appellee. Among the errors assigned and discussed by appellant’s counsel are those of the overruling of its motion for a judgment in its favor upon the special verdict of the jury, and the sustaining of the appellee’s motion for judgment in his favor upon such verdict.

It appears, from the facts found in the special…